Joseph Kaplan

Joseph Kaplan (1975-) was a Czechoslovakian criminal who worked as a pimp and a sex shop owner in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York City during the 2000s.

Biography
Joseph Kaplan was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1975, and he emigrated to the United States at a young age. Kaplan settled in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York City, which was home to a large Eastern European community. Kaplan was suspected of running a prostitution ring from a Brighton Beach sex shop, and he made low budget pornographic movies in his basement; young women such as prostitute Marnie Allen accused him of conning them into appearing in his movies. His only conviction was a 2003 arrest for sexual assault, and he operated under the wing of Russian Mafia. In 2008, Mikhail Faustin sent Dimitri Rascalov and Niko Bellic to extort Kaplan, who had missed several payments to the Faustin crime family. He paid up after his porn star Brett was shot in the leg, and Rascalov knocked him out with his gun to punish him.